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Together with our friend and professional photographer Guido Braun, we have been hard at workover the last few months on a Mesh photo book. This photobook will contain pictures of the Mesh’s entire career. But we are still missing a very important chapter: the photos by you; our fans, our friends, our DNA.

Mesh wouldn’t be Mesh without our fans, so it seemed logical to add a chapter contributed by fans. We are specifically looking for pictures of the band members on stage or off stage. Please send them to photos@mesh.co.uk. They don’t have to be high quality – pictures taken by old digital low resolution cameras or smartphones will do. Please don’t put any watermarks on them as we want to put all pics in some sort of gallery. Watermarks might be disturbing.

This book will be sold at the merchandising booth during the second part of Touring Skyward.

The legal stuff:

All pictures need to be sent digitally to photos@mesh.co.uk before 10th of March 2017.

Co-author Guido Braun will select the pictures that will be used in the book. Unfortunately we can’t make any guarantees that your pictures will make the final cut.

By sending us the pictures, you give us permission to use them in the upcoming Mesh photobook includingfor commercial use.

We can’t provide any form of payment or compensation for the use of the picture(s).

Faq

If my photo is used, do I get a discount to buy the book?

Sorry, but we can’t provide in any form of payment

I’m a professional photographer and I would like to contribute to the book?

That’s really kind of you, but the major part of the book is ready. The only part missing is photos by fans. So as a fan you can send your pictures but we are not specifically looking for professional pictures for this chapter. Please note that we don’t have the space to credit your contribution.

Only 3 more days…. but we’ve got a little something for you as a reward for your patience. “The traps we made” is one of the songs on “Looking Skyward”. Hope you enjoy it. Read more about the album in an interview on Releasemagazine.net

The release of the new MESH album “Looking Skyward” will be followed by a tour in Europe. The tour starts in our hometown Bristol followed by 14 shows across the UK, Germany and Switzerland. You can order your ticketshere.

A few weeks ago we announced Empathy Test as support for the entire tour and Aesthetic Perfection for shows in the UK and Switzerland. We are very happy to announce that Aesthetic Perfection will also join the rest of the tour as main support.

Aesthetic Perfection is an american electro project created by Daniel Graves. He will play an electro pop set with live keyboardist.

It’s a question we get a lot. Apparantly the B-side of our new single is just as popular as the A-side. So why did we leave it off the album?

We had written all the songs for “Looking Skyward” and had decided on the single “Kill Your Darlings” when the B-side question came up.

It’s always a dilemma as it means taking something off the album and that is not easy to decide on. So we decided to write something specifically for the job. Mark found a piece of music that I wrote last year and started writing lyrics to it whilst we were in the studio mixing other songs. That evening he laid down all the vocals tracks and the song with the working title “What’s Happening To Us” was born.

The following morning we presented the new song to our record company and a few others that were there. Everyone said “No way is this a B-Side. It’s far too good” Ahh great…back to square one. So together with Jan Winterfeld (our tour manager) and Stefan Herwig (record company), we decided that “Paper Thin” should be replaced on the album with the new track and “Paper Thin” become the B-Side. “What’s Happening To Us” later became “Circles” and only appears on the Deluxe version of the album on the second disc.

Just one more day left until the new MESH Single “Kill Your Darlings”, will be released. We are really pleased how the video came out. It all seems very relevant to what’s going on in our world today. However: No babies, keyboard players or drummers were harmed during the making of this video.

The new single and the forthcoming album are also available for preorder now: